Mastodawn

Today, at work, I installed Fallow by Bart Waardenburg. It analyses your whole (JavaScript/TypeScript) codebase and finds dead code, duplicate code and code that's too complex. It's quick and works really well. Must have when you have a large codebase and/or are using AI.

https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow#readme

GitHub - fallow-rs/fallow: Codebase intelligence for TypeScript and JavaScript. Free static layer: unused code, duplication, circular deps, complexity hotspots, architecture boundaries. Optional paid runtime layer: hot-path review and cold-path deletion evidence from real production traffic. Rust-native, sub-second, 90 framework plugins.

Codebase intelligence for TypeScript and JavaScript. Free static layer: unused code, duplication, circular deps, complexity hotspots, architecture boundaries. Optional paid runtime layer: hot-path ...

GitHub

Edwin Martin Apr 27

Thirty years ago I wrote a Tetris clone as a Java applet. But support for applets ended in 2015. Now, thanks to AI, I easily converted the applet to JavaScript and my old Tetris clone is working again.

https://bitstorm.org/teatricks/

Tea Tricks

Edwin Martin Mar 18

Windy city Mar 12

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Edwin Martin Mar 6

Gabriele Svelto Mar 4

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

Edwin Martin Feb 11

Tim Severien Feb 11

🔍 I'm looking for a remote senior frontend/full-stack/software engineering position in the EU! I have 15 years experience building web-based products with a strong UX, mostly with JS-heavy stacks. TypeScript, React, Node.js, Astro, HTML, CSS, etc.

My best work is done with empathy. I like to collaborate with and support the people around me, and to develop for and with the user.

[email protected]
https://tsev.dev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timseverien/

#fediHire #getFediHired #job #jobSearch

Tim Severien

Blog of another senior web engineer

Tim Severien

Edwin Martin Jan 1

KNMI Dec 30

Aan het eind van het jaar voegen we traditiegetrouw een nieuw streepje toe aan de klimaatstreepjescode: de reeks gekleurde lijnen die laat zien hoe de temperatuur in Nederland sinds 1901 is veranderd. De streep van 2025 kleurt donkerrood. 🔗 https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/klimaatstreepjescode-krijgt-nieuw-streepje-voor-2025